"If You Forget Me" by Pablo Neruda (poetry reading)

Another of Pablo Neruda's simple love poems. The feelings he portrays aren't particularly laudable but they are very human and touching and realistic, reflecting what most people would feel...

The walking tree is a 3D image from Tom Troceen's site:
http://www.tomtroceen.com/3d/my-intru3dcolorcode-3d-anaglyph-images

The flower at the lips is a desktop wallpaper:
http://www.arts-wallpapers.com/DesktopWallpaper

The posy at the end is a bunch of forget-me-nots.

If you forget me
I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.

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[WalrusDoctor]

I don't think I can listen to anymore of your readings tonight. I keep thinking of open windows on a cool autumn day when its cloudy. And the wind ruffles an old book and I catch a whiff of the pages. And I'm alone as the curtains sway and gray sky looms.Somewhere children crunch leaves under foot; their winter clothing fresh out of storage for the October air. They're alone, too.

[leohammondb3]

I'm getting addicted to your poetry reading.

Thank you for sharing.

[daltonsbadboy]

very nice

[ruthycutie03]

awesome...reminding me of someone...:(

[Xcelerator1337]

pulserz - if you forget me

[dillonfreed]

veritas

[thissong4you]

oh.

[1991thing]

i like this . thank you a lot :)

[Sapientian]

That was so beautiful.Thank you for uploading.

[GDATERRY]

This is very human, and I actually agree.

[Sapientian]

I melted...I don't know what to say.Thank you Spokenverse...I never had an affinity towards poetry.But I think you lit the spark :) Thank you so very much